Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-01-12
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strange eyes the wond! !,tful mouth, the pale
skin. Her head-dress was a dark veil, which
seemed to be tied about her head and passed
over the shoulders uuker her chin As l
threw down the windo&S aud knelt ON the
cushioned seat, leaning lar out to get better
view, q long whistle sSAesmed through the
station, followed by Riuick series Of duh,
clanking sounds; THEA there WAS slight
JERK, and my train moved on, Luckily the
window WAS marrow, being the one over the
seat beside the door, or believed would
hsve jumped out of 1t then and there In an
instant tue speed increased and was being
carried swiftly away In the opposite direction
from the thing | loved.
For quarter Of an hour lay back In my
place, stunned by the suddenness oi the
spparition. At last one OF tho two other pas
sengers a large aud gorgeous captain of the
White konigsberg Curassiers, ciNiliy but
hrmly suggested that might shut my win
dow, a. the evening WAS cold. | did So,
with an apology, aud relapsed into silence.
The train ran swiftly ON for alOng time, and
II was already beginning to slscken speed
before entering another station when L
reused myself and made sudden resolu-
ton. As the carriage stopped before the bill
ltsntly lighted platform / seized my belong
iugs, ssuted my fellow passengers ana got
out, determined to take the first express back
to Paris.
This time the circumstances Of the vision
hsu oeen so natural that II did not strike me
that there was anything unreal about the lace
or about the woman TO whom II belonged
l diu not Try TO explain to myself how the
face and the woman could be travelling 10y a
last train from Berlin TO Paris on n winter \
afternoon when both we're IN my mind
indeibly associated with the moonlight and
the fountains Ia my own English home. l
certainly would not have admitted that had
been mistaken In the dusk, sttTtouung 10
what hsu seen a resemblance to my former
vision which did not really exist There
was not The slightest doubt In my mind and
| was positively sure that hsi again seen
| the face loved. did not hesitate, and in q
few hours | was on my way back to Paris.
| ! could not help rejecting on my tLluck.
| wandering as had been for many months,
| II might As easily have CHANGED that should
| he travelling in the same train with that
| woman instead of going the other way. But
| my luck was destined 10 turn for time
| l searched Paris for several days dlned
at the principal hotels; went to the thea.
| tres rode in the BOis de BOulogue in the
| morning and picked up An acquaintance
| whom forced to drive with me IN the alter
| noon went TO mass at the Madeleine and
| lsttendei the services at tn English church.
| huns ABOUT the Louvre and Notre Dame ,
| 1 went TO ersailles | spent hours in parad
| ing the Rue de Rivol in the neighborhood
| OF Meurice's corner, where foreigners pass
| and repass from morning till night Al last
| received an invitation to . reception at the
| English embassy. | went. and found what
| had sought 80 long.
| There she was, sitting by an old lady in
| gray satin and diamonds, VITO had a wrink-
led but kindly face and keen gray eyes that
seemed 70 take in everything they saw, with
| very little inclination to give much in return.
| But did not notice the Chaperou. | saw
| only the face that had haunted me tor months,
| snd in the excitement OF the moment /
| walked quickly towards the pair, forgetting
| such Tifs as the necessity for an intro
| duCtlon.
She was far more beautiful than | had
| thought, but never doubted that 1t was she
| herself and no other. Vision or no vision
| before, this was reality, and knew 1t Twice
| her hair had been covered, now at last l saw
| II, and the added beauty Of It's magnIiceuce
| slorihed the whole woman. 1t WAS rich hair,
| hue and abundant, golden, with deep ruddy
| unts in 1t ike red bronze spun fine There
| was no ornament in Il, not a rose not thread
| OF gold, and feel that It needed nothing 10
| enhance Its splendor nothing but her pale
| face, her dark strange eyes, and her
| heavy eyebrows. 1 could see that she Was
slenGsr, too, gazing al the moving scene in
| the midst of the brilliant lights and the hum
| o.prepetual conversation.
To be Continued To morrow